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Dharmesh Shah on AEO, AI Agents, and the ‘AI App Store’
Manage episode 524564760 series 3621669
Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking.
It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling.
In this conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with HubSpot Founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) to unpack:
- AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): SEO for the AI era
- How to structure content to get cited in AI answers
- The hidden risk of low-quality AI content
- Effectively using AI agents as teammates
- The coming “AI App Store” for agents
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. The AI ranking opportunity (AEO) (00:00:53)
3. How to rank in AI chatbots (00:06:14)
4. Using AI to adapt content for AEO (00:08:11)
5. Training teams on "AI Intuition" (00:12:24)
6. Content moats in the AI-slop era (00:19:45)
7. Dharmesh's new AI agent startup (00:21:57)
8. AI agent monetization strategy (00:30:33)
9. The bottlenecks to autonomous agents (00:39:38)
10. Building teams: humans vs agents (00:45:15)
11. Why Dharmesh still codes as a billionaire (00:52:49)
10 episodes
Manage episode 524564760 series 3621669
Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking.
It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling.
In this conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with HubSpot Founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) to unpack:
- AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): SEO for the AI era
- How to structure content to get cited in AI answers
- The hidden risk of low-quality AI content
- Effectively using AI agents as teammates
- The coming “AI App Store” for agents
__
Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe
Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/
Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. The AI ranking opportunity (AEO) (00:00:53)
3. How to rank in AI chatbots (00:06:14)
4. Using AI to adapt content for AEO (00:08:11)
5. Training teams on "AI Intuition" (00:12:24)
6. Content moats in the AI-slop era (00:19:45)
7. Dharmesh's new AI agent startup (00:21:57)
8. AI agent monetization strategy (00:30:33)
9. The bottlenecks to autonomous agents (00:39:38)
10. Building teams: humans vs agents (00:45:15)
11. Why Dharmesh still codes as a billionaire (00:52:49)
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